Elden Ring: Launch Edition (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Elden Ring: Launch Edition

The Elden Ring: Launch Edition is a special edition of Elden Ring that was available at the game's release. This edition includes several physical and digital items aimed at enhancing the experience for early…

25 February 2022

What Elden Ring: Launch Edition is

Elden Ring: Launch Edition is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2022. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional realm over which several demigods rule. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested itself as the physical concept of order. When Marika shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began fighting over pieces of the Ring in an event called The Shattering. Each demigod has a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. The player must traverse the realm to repair the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Elden Ring: Launch Edition launched on 25 February 2022, within three weeks of Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic and Sifu. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic, Sifu.

Elden Ring: Launch Edition — frequently asked questions